We finalize our investigative series about international network of FSB business by disclosing one more group of companies \u2013 GDP Group. It has hosted two families, long term partners of FSB officers, and several \u00absleeping\u00bb projects. It demonstrates how Russian intelligence services act without any problems in European countries. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n Let us remind conclusions of our previous publications. As the CJI uncovered, retired officer of FSB Andrei Shkrabo<\/a> represented Russia in the humanitarian sub-group of tri-partite contact group \u00abMinsk-2\u00bb and coordinated his activity with pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. At the same time, he has been businessman. He has managed companies conducting dredging works in ports of several countries. Those companies were closely connected with retired high rank officers of Russian intelligence services. Retired Colonel General Viktor Komogorov has been among them. He served as Deputy Director of FSB and head of so-called 5th<\/sup> Service of FSB, conducting operations abroad, in particular, in post-Soviet countries.<\/p>\n Our next investigation uncovered the dubious network of companies \u00abEkohidrotechnika\u00bb (EHT Group)<\/a>. Having acquired dredgers and barges from Soviet company \u00abBalmorput\u00bb, the network expanded its activity through interconnected legal entities in Russia, USA, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Ukraine, Panama, Cyprus and Malta. Companies and ships regularly changed founders, managers, flags, names and supervisors. Western sanctions, imposed on Russia after 2014, and Russian full scale aggression against Ukraine caused the last redistribution of Group\u2019s fleet. Three ships have now Russian flag. Two of them were located in the Russian port of Ust-Luga, according to Marinetraffic data, as of the date of our publication. The third ship left the Russian port of Azov more than one month ago and was found<\/a> last time at the entrance of the port of Saint Petersburg. Then, it switched off its transponder.<\/p>\n Two ships of the Group under the flag of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis were stationed in the Latvian port of Riga, in the water area of ship building factory.<\/p>\n Russian, Lithuanian and Latvian companies of EHT Group have historical and current connections, described in detail in the previous part<\/a> of the CJI\u2019s investigation. There are people who connect them together. These are high rank officers of intelligence services, managers and members of Borodin family (Borodins): Aleksandr Borodin, citizen of Ukraine and Latvia, his son Aleksandrs Borodins with his wife Karina Borodina as well as Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Litovkin<\/a>. The latter has been registered as de jure owner of Group\u2019s companies in Lithuania and Malta.<\/p>\n Let us take Green Line Shipping<\/strong>, registered in Klaipeda, Lithuania, as an example of interrelated links. Business Register indicates Volodymyr Litovkin as its beneficiary owner (he confirmed it to the CJI) and Aleksandrs Borodins-junior as its director. The company is 100% owner of Russian acting LLC \u00abBaltgeotrest\u00bb<\/strong>. FSB officer Andrei Shkrabo has been its director in 2015-2017. Then, he was replaced by Aleksandr Attar. Attar founded LLC \u00abBureau of Sea Projects and Technologies\u00bb<\/strong>. According to IMO Register, this Bureau now acts as an agent of the owner of ship \u00abLiman\u00bb<\/strong>. In June 2022, the Russian government allowed<\/a> it to withdraw three ships of EHT Group from Russia to the Baltic States (\u00abPoseidon I\u00bb, \u00abAstra\u00bb, \u00abBaltic Digger\u00bb).<\/strong><\/p>\n Since March 2019 until now, Aleksandrs Borodins has been successor of Attar as founder of LLC \u00abAzimut-Vektor\u00bb, based in Saint Petersburg. We do not know wheter it is \u00absenior\u00bb or \u00abjunior\u00bb Borodin as the Register does not indicate its taxpayer\u2019s code. As leaked databases demonstrate, in March 2019 both Borodins visited Saint Petersburg. The father \u2013 within first three days of March and son \u2013 on March 17-18, 2019.<\/p>\n What\u2019s new about EHT Group?<\/strong><\/p>\n Though LLC \u00abBaltgeotrest<\/a>\u00bb remains acting company, Aleksandrs Borodins-junior stated in his answer to media \u00ab15 min\u00bb that its founder \u2013 Green Line Shipping, headed by him, – \u00abdid not conduct any activity in the Russian Federation due to sanction restrictions\u00bb.<\/p>\n It should be reminded that EU, USA and other countries have imposed sanctions on Russia since 2014 when Russian Federations launched military aggression against Ukraine, illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol, started war in Donbas. So, when Western companies left the Russian market, one of Borodins became sole owner of dredging company \u00abAzimut-Vektor\u00bb in Saint Petersburg. In 2022, after Russian full scale invasion into Ukraine, international sanctions were significantly strengthened. But this loss-making company suddenly became profitable<\/a> in 2024 and received 1,5 million Rubles of net profit!<\/p>\n Aleksandrs Borodins junior, head and co-founder of companies EHT Group in Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. Photo:: abc-crewing.lv<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Since 2014, EU has imposed \u00abCrimean sanctions<\/a>\u00bb. They ban entrance of ships into ports of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol and any financial transactions with legal entities on occupied peninsula.<\/p>\n However, in June and August 2015, dredger \u00abIgnis\u00bb entered the Crimean port of Yevpatoria two times. At that time, this dredger has been owned by Cypriote company \u00abEtrecat Limited\u00bb, owned by Aleksandrs Borodins-junior, according to IMO data. The ship has stayed in the port of Yevpatoria during four months. Monitoring group Blackseanews assumed<\/a> that the dredger cleaned a fairway and approaches to port piers. Then, the owner and managers of the ship received payment for their works from Russian occupation authorities. It has been obvious violation of sanction regime.<\/p>\n Aleksandrs Borodins-junior insists that Green Line Shipping is not ship owner. However, IMO database of ships says the opposite: since 2004 until now this Lithuanian company has been registration owner of ship \u00abSaulkrasti\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Its legal address is the location of Latvian companies from \u00abEkohidrotechnika\u00bb \u2013 Ludzas street, 2, Riga (the building is owned by company, with Irina Borodina as final beneficiary). The branch of Green Line Shipping has been registered there for one year, but it was liquidated later. IMO database indicates Bureau Ship Services as C\\O. Since 2012, this company has been operator and ISM-manager of \u00abSaulkrasti\u00bb and other three ships of EHT Group.<\/p>\n \u00abI\u2019ve got no idea whether barge \u00abSaulkrasti\u00bb is located now in the port of Ust-Luga. As far as I know, the ship was used for metal scrap many years ago as it became old\u00bb, as wrote Borodins-junior in his answer to investigators from media \u00ab15 min\u00bb. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n However, other information is supplied by Marinetraffic and other services indicating whereabouts and routes of ships by their AIC signals. Green mark on the map indicates that ship \u00abSaulkrasti\u00bb is located in the Russian port of Ust-Luga<\/a>. Photographers sometimes take pictures of the ship. Thus, it has not been used for metal scrap as A.Borodins tries to persuade us.<\/p>\n Ship \u00abSaulkrasti\u00bb in the port of Ust-Luga, October 2022. Photo: Marinetraffic, photographer Sergei Timofeev<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n We also cast into doubt the following statement of Borodins-junior. He wrote in his answer to Lithuanian journalists: \u00abI do not have direct or indirect connections with FSB. I do not know personally current or former high rank FSB officers and I did not know them\u00bb. He added that he did not have personal connections with Russian citizen Andrei Shkrabo.<\/p>\n We doubt very much that these statements are true. FSB officer Shkrabo has managed LLC \u00abBaltgeotrest\u00bb for several years when it has been Russian \u00abdaughter\u00bb of Green Line Shipping, headed by Borodins-junior. The company received the largest profits from contracts with Rosmorport during these years. FSB officers did not share their profits with \u00abmother\u00bb company? The director of \u00abmother\u00bb company did not ask about situation with its \u00abdaughter\u00bb?<\/p>\n Viktor Komogorov, retired Colonel General of FSB (centre). Photo: social media<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Our previous investigation indicated that we found only one mention of Borodins-senior in media \u2013 as the director of \u00abEkohidrotechnika Ltd\u00bb (USA). We failed to find his picture or any details of his biography in the Internet or in leaked databases. We suggested that information about him has been purposefully \u00abcleaned\u00bb as he had connections with Soviet KGB \\ Russian FSB. Our assumption was right!<\/p>\n Guna Gleizde, journalist of broadcast \u00abNothing personal\u00bb (Latvian TV3), joined investigation and found the card of KGB agent Borodin Aleksandr Viktorovich<\/strong> in the State Archives of Latvia<\/a>. His first, middle and last names, date of birth (20.05.1957) and address coincide with personal data of Aleksandr Borodins-senior!<\/p>\n Borodin was born in Golubeche village of Kryzhopilsky raion of Vinnytsia oblast (Ukraine). He worked as navigator on ships of Soviet company \u00abBaltmorput\u00bb. KGB recruited him in 1983 under nickname \u00abBoroda\u00bb [Beard]. According to KGB card, he has been an agent of the 4th<\/sup> unit of KGB, set up in 1981 for counterintelligence on transport and communication objects.<\/p>\n Digital copy of KGB agent Aleksandr Borodin (nickname \u00abBoroda\u00bb) from KGB archive of Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. Source: State Archives of Latvia. Photo: tv3.lv<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n This fact confirms observations of our expert Pavlo Lakijchuk. As he told, KGB and Soviet Main Intelligence Department routinely recruited members of crews of civilian ships to perform intelligence, counterintelligence and sabotage tasks around the world.<\/p>\n Personnel of \u00abBaltmorput\u00bb worked around the world. The company has been an ideal cover-up for KGB agent network. Its post-Soviet successors inherited its specialists. Website of EHT Group emphasizes their high qualifications.<\/p>\n It is not surprising that work of Group\u2019s dredgers in ports of EU \\ NATO countries opened an access to sensitive information. For example, \u00abGreen Line Shipping\u00bb performed dredging works in the Latvian port of Klaipeda (total value \u2013 4.9 million Euro). According to the contract, the port had to give the company information about underwater communication and bathymetric charts of the port. The company also had an access to Klaipeda terminal of liquefied gas.<\/p>\n KGB, Russian FSB and Foreign Intelligence Service have also routinely used families of spies for rooting in foreign countries. Dozens of non-fiction movies and documentaries were shot about families of Soviet and Russian spies. A series \u00abAmericans\u00bb is among the most known last movies. Its plot focuses on a real story of FSB agents Andrei Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova, exposed by FBI in 2010.<\/p>\n Our investigation uncovered three families of citizens of Russia, Latvia and Lithuania, connected by joint business interests with retired generals of Russian intelligence services. These are families of Borodin-Borodins, Dzamikhov and Bastene-Kavaliauskas<\/strong>. All of them are united by another business group of FSB officers \u2013 GDP Group<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/p>\n Family contracts in businesses of FSB and \u00absleeping projects\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n GDP Group has not been registered as de jure business group. But it has been announced and promoted. Its website was created and registered in Russian domain zone in summer 2015. Access to the website was closed at the end of 2024. Thus, the Group has functioned not less than 10 years. We found information about its composition and activity in the web-archive of its site.<\/p>\n The logo of international group of companies EHT is easily recognized. Its website<\/a> also demonstrates logos of two Russian LLCs: \u00abBaltgeotrest\u00bb (\u00abdaughter\u00bb of Lithuanian Green Line Shipping) and \u00abBaltinvestproekt\u00bb (FSB General Viktor Komogorov and Akhmed Dzamikhov own equal shares of the last company).<\/p>\n Earlier the CJI described business history of Akhmed Dzamikhov, business partner of Komogorov. In 2012-2013, Dzamikhov has been involved into scandalous story with Chechen police, bodyguards of Kadyrov, sale of stolen VIP-cars, abduction and torturing of people. He was imprisoned together with Chechen policemen.But then this case was somehow settled.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since 2014, Dzamikhov became business partner of FSB General, founder and director of several companies \u2013 \u00abBaltinvestproekt\u00bb,\u00a0 \u00abIVEK\u00bb, GDP Group, \u00abGDP Geo\u00bb etc. All companies were registered in Moscow at the same address: Kuznetsky mist, 21\/5. \u00bbInternational Fund of Sustainable Development\u00bb (\u041c\u0424\u0423\u0420<\/a>) and JSC \u00abInstitute of Technologies of Sustainable Development\u00bb, created with Fund\u2019s assistance, also have legal addresses there. It is interesting that public office of FSB is located nearby \u2013 Kuznetsky mist, 22.<\/p>\n Founders and managers of the Fund include retired generals Viktor Komogorov and Viktor Orlov, LLC \u00abGDP Group\u00bb of Dzamikhov-junior. Two years ago, Akhmed Dzamikhov transferred his share in the company (76%) to his son Artur Dzamikhov<\/strong>. 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